Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
MINNESOTA.

MINI ESOTA
st. Cloud is to have better system Of
water works.
Rochester will put in six drinking und
park fountains.
Corn in many portions of the state
again needs rain.
The new mill at Dodge Center will be
in operation soon.
w. r. Edwards, of Hutchinson, has
bought the Tracy Republican.
In the vicinity of Cannon Falls, where
wheat escaped the chinch bug, the crop is
good.
Several elevators in Southern Mime
sofa are to be closed on account of poor
crops.
John Thoreson, of South Centre, has
been com lifted to Jail on charge Of bas-
tardy.
Important enterprises are under way
at Brainard that are expected to give that
city first class boom.
A son of ex-Attorney- General Wayne
McYeagh is to marry Minnesota girl,
daughter of Gen. Hammond.
"A large addition is being built 10 the
seminary of the sisters of the order OF the
Holy Child Jesus at Waseca.
q William Burk's general merchandise
store at High Forest was broken into. the
safe blown open and 800 stolen.
Austin will expend $4,000 this year
in bridges. The settlement with the treas
urer showed $4,000 in the treasury.
Col. Sheridan, Indian agent at White
Earth, says the reports that there is d,nger
of IN Indian outbreak are sensational.
Maj. Frigley's barn at Frdley was
struck by lightning and hay, grain, and
farming utensils valued at $4,000 destroyed.
AT the competitive examination at
Mankato, Louis G. Scherer, of New Ulm,
received the appointment as West Point
cadet.
Judge Crosby, at Hastings, den ed
motion for new trial of Peter johnson,
convicted of granddaughter, and johnson
has gone to prison.
Peter Beckman, q farme. mt Li.chiield,
became insane from worry because he was
not getting his crops cut in time, an com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat
"A new one cent evening Pap r, Indc-
pendent in politics, is to be started in st.
Paul by Messrs. Richardson. OF Chicago,
and Painter, formerly of the Kansas City
Mems.
"A shooting affair between the husband
and ex-husband of a colored woman at ST.
Paul will probably result in making the
woman widow with not even an ex-
husband.
Mayor Ames' residence at Minneup-
oils was visited by burglar tie other
night, but he didn't get anything. The
burglar was probably laboring under the
mistake that Ames was governor.
Freedom county has decided 10 dis
continue the bounties on gophnrs and
blackbirds. Two thousand dollars have
been paid out, and yet the efforts of the
county fathers to nnnihilnte or diminish
these alleged superfuities of the animal
and feathered kingdom have proved futile.
| AS Mrs. William Brey, of Udolpho,
wis gathering eggs under grana,y. she
was severely bitten on the hand by rat
| tlesnake coiled in the nest. She was
taken to Blooming Prairie for medical
treatment. Her arm and hand were badly
swoolen.
Judge Crosby of the Red Wing judi
cial district, has rendered decision to the
effect that if defendant, when on trial
befor justice who is sitting MS n commit
ting judge, asks for change of nue., it
must be granted. This has long been a
mooted question in legal circles.
"A bill of $50 was presented to the
Rochester Council by Mrs. j. H. Eas,on, a
spiritualist physician, for medical aid fur
nished Aleck White last Fourth of July.
Mrs. Easton's diagnosis discovered no
bodily injury. while regular physician
| found rib broken and forced into the
lung, three other ribs being dislocated
The Brennan meadow, near st. Cloud,
which took fire from passing locomotive,
burned for number of days. About
thirty five acres are totally destroyed, as it
is stated that nothing will grow upon it
again. Twenty-four years ago similar
meadow, about mile from the Brennan,
was devastated by fire and nothing has
grown upon it since.
Mrs. Peter on, wife of John Peterson,
living two miles from Fisher, was engaged
in hayiny, when the horse ran away and
dragged her under barbed- wire fence.
Her face and body were horribly margled.
The aesh of the left arm was stripped
from the shoulder to the wris leaving ths
bare bone, The arm was amputsted at the
sheuldo', She Is In . critical condition,